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Cathy is trapped in an idyllic country nightmare. Her husband's gone native and she's been taken hostage by the ladies from the local Cake Club. Forced to run their cake stall, she decides to make her escape, only to find herself thwarted by squashed confections, tangled bunting, rampaging bullocks and irresistible temptation. Contains adult themes.

Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. The two policemen appear very briefly and could be doubled by Shadbolt and the MC. (The MC is written female but could be male.)

Run Time

Around 130 minutes. [Estimated!]

Music

None.

Style

Full-length black comedy, with a single setting - an allotment. (Hence the title - a reference to a standard allotment plot size.)

Synopsis

Alf, Joe and Walter, all in their 70s, return from the funeral of their old army colleague and neighbouring, allotment holder, Ted. Their immediate concern is who will take over Ted's now vacant allotment. Their worst fears materialise when Sylvia and boyfriend Shadbolt, neither of whom have a clue about gardening, are given Ted's plot. Sylvia seems friendly enough but Shadbolt goes out of his way to be difficult and anti-social. The resulting feud between the old chaps and the loathsome Shadbolt takes a serious turn and they are forced to use their old army tactics to take desperate measures to permanently rid themselves of the obnoxious intruder. In the process they uncover Shadbolt's past and an unexpected connection to Sylvia...

Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. One of the characters is a young boy, the rest are adults (mainly over-the-top thespians).

Run Time

Around 115 minutes. [Estimated!]

Music

None.

Style

Full-length comedy, set around a struggling (American) theatre company. Contains very minor swearing.

Synopsis

For years Sheldon has held together his troupe of actors with the promise of a show, but now his accountant has signed up a producer, who's found a backer and they're going to have to perform at last. But the script is bad - worse than the actors themselves - and they have the Sponsor's idiot son involved too...

A full length comedic family saga with a single (farmhouse kitchen) set. Contains robust language.

Synopsis

Betty is having a bad day. She's overheating, her mother is demented, her son is coming out, her daughter is getting divorced, the farm is losing money and her husband is hiding away from it all under the tractor. Or is he just dead?

Comedy play in two acts. This is not a British Pantomime version of the story, but fits much the same purpose - entertainment for a family audience

Synopsis

A comic retelling of Dumas' classic tale, containing all the original elements but reconstructed in a manner that's a little... unorthodox. D'Artagnan and the musketeers battle the wicked Cardinal Richelieu and his accomplice, Milady de Winter.

History lecturer Nigel Appleton has been granted a Bursary to work on a book about Tiglath Pileser III, King of Assyria. His base is an island off the coast of Cornwall. The island and the bursaries are presided over by the redoubtable Mrs Greyshott, guardian of the cultural and moral standards of the island and not a fan of commercialism. As a result, the arrival of Nigel's high-powered agent, Fenella Babbage, is not entirely welcome. Less welcome, from Fenella's point of view, is the appearance of rival agent and ex-husband, Elliott Fitch. Fenella needs to persuade the predatory Elliott and Mrs Greyshott that her interest in Nigel is personal rather than professional. Can Nigel avoid joining in? Plainly the answer is in the negative.

Full-length farce. Single set - a private lounge in a Dartmoor holiday lodge - with plenty of entrancesand exits. Contains (mild) swearing.First published September 2010, Revised November 2015.

Synopsis

Sir Maynard Bullivant, MP, arranges a quiet weekend with Judge Dorothy Tranter at Beacon Tor Lodge in deepest Devon. The planne romatic trist is derailed by Dorothy's need to prepare a case, and Maynard's unxepected appointment to the Cabinet. There's also the matter of an old flame of Maynard's arriving with a bag of stolen diamonds, which she expects Maynard to smuggle for her - a bit tricky, since henow has a Civil Service minder and a Special Branch Protection Officer monitoring his every move. Then there's the ex-con, the ambitious cub reporter and... oh yes, an escaped tiger.Now, did someone mention a quiet weekend?

At a dysfunctional family’s Christmas gathering, head of the family William is facing a terminal illness. His wilful refusal to acknowledge his gay son's right to full humanity forces him to choose between dying alone or facing his homophobic feelings and their cause.

Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. All the characters are adults. There are two non-speaking males (who dance in mediaeval armour!) who could be doubled by two other characters.

It's a Mediaeval Re-enactment Society, so the constitution is based on feudalism. King Duncan is about to abdicate (to nurse his hernia) and has the right to appoint a successor. The choice comes down to Sir Roger, who has a pedantic obsession with the detail of mediaeval combat and Sir Eric, who wants to be Errol Flynn playing the Black Prince. And, with the connivance of Queen Veronica, it comes down to trial by combat.

A full length historical drama, set in an ornate Victorian room and a graveyard.

Synopsis

The Brotherhood of the Pre-Raphaelites has recruited a new sitter, the dazzling but uncultured Elizabeth Siddal. She becomes Rossetti's wife and a friend to his sister, but the unequal marriage takes a terrible toll. Contains a scene with partial female nudity.